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Christian Loewe

Christian Loewe MD

Radiology
Wien, Wien, Austria

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Professor Christian Loewe is a cardiovascular radiologist and Head of the Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at the Department of Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He is highly interested and active in radiological education, exemplified by a couple of functions and activities: He is actively involved with the Austrian Roentgen Society and has been responsible for the Austrian Board examination for many years. Furthermore, he has been a member of the Executive committee of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) for the past five years and the Chairman of the Educational Committee and the European Board of Cardiovascular Radiology (EBCR) within the ESCR.

He is a member of the Programme Planning Committee of ECR 2018, 2019, and 2020 and he is a member of the Steering Committee of the European School of Radiology. He founded Vienna Heart, a successful teaching initiative to train radiologists in modern cardiac imaging. He is also chairman of the Accreditation Council in Imaging (ACI) responsible for the accreditation of radiological events on behalf of the UEMS. Professor Loewe served as a member of the Editorial Board for European Radiology for ten years, and he served for two periods as Associate Editor for Radiology. He has published more than 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and gave more than 300 invited lectures so far. His main focus is cardiac imaging, imaging peripheral arteries, diagnosis and the treatment of aortic diseases, as well as minimally invasive treatment of oncological diseases.